“Thou shalt not bear false witness,” the Bible said—but why not, if the jury couldn’t tell the difference between the truth and a pack of lies and neither could the judge? Dressed in black and wearing a veil as if she was in mourning for him, dabbing her eyes with her handkerchief, she fooled them all. The Bible also said, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife,” and he was ordered to pay them fifty dollars a month. That was their reward, for breaking the Ten Commandments.
